Action title
|
Scientific name
 |
Common name
|
Type of species
|
Priority |
Liaise with commercial fishing regulators to raise awareness about the potential impacts of long-line fishing on the species. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Animal >
Birds |
High
|
Implement the proposed Lord Howe Island rodent eradication plan. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Animal >
Birds |
High
|
Continue to implement biosecurity strategies on Lord Howe Island to prevent the establishment of exotic pests or pathogens. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Animal >
Birds |
High
|
Implement control program to eradicate African Big-headed ants. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Animal >
Birds |
High
|
Ensure appropriate environmental assessment is undertaken when assessing development proposals. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Liaise with leaseholders and visitors regarding protection and management of remnant and significant vegetation in the settlement area. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Provide assistance for leaseholders to protect significant remnant vegetation in the settlement area. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Encourage invertebrate and vertebrate habitat protection in the settlement area. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Minimise impacts of Kentia palm seed collecting. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Educate residents and visitors on the potential impacts of collection on the biodiversity value of fauna of the LHIG. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Conduct a review of legislation to ensure there is adequate legislative power, particularly in regard to invertebrates to prevent illegal collection. Lobby for changes to legislation. Amend Regulations where appropriate and possible. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Ensure that appropriate LHIB staff have statutory authority and training to undertake law enforcement activities. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
LHIB to enhance relationships with regulatory authorities concerned with the trade of biological materials. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Ensure appropriate licences are issued for persons undertaking collections for research purposes. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Establish a list of terrestrial invertebrates of the LHIG that may have commercial value. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate the feasibility of commercial captive breeding of terrestrial invertebrates in terms of a biodiversity benefit. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Restrict access to offshore islands that are significant for invertebrate species, particularly Balls Pyramid, Blackburn and Roach Islands. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Establish protocols to keep significant invertebrate localities secure. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Promote visitor awareness of the importance to stay on walking tracks. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Establish an appropriate hygiene protocols for access to Mount Gower. This would include options such as cleaning of footwear. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Investigate options for placement of composting toilet at the entrance to the Mount Gower walking track. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Ensure researchers are aware of sensitive areas prior to field work commencing. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Encourage tourists, residents, researchers and management staff to adopt minimal impact bushwalking practices. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Protect threatened plant habitats from adverse impacts of visitation. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Monitor areas identified at risk from climate change. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Establish monitoring sites in as many "at risk" areas as possible, including Mangroves, Sallywood Swamp Forest, cloud forest, high parts of the northern hills. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Establish long-term monitoring sites of terrestrial invertebrates and selected flora (including non-vascular flora) along an altitudinal gradient in the southern mountains. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Develop and implement a monitoring program to assess the impacts of climate change on invertebrate lifecycles and ‘at risk’ flora e.g. Knicker Nut, Chamaesyce psammogeton, Geniostoma huttonii, Polystichum moorei, and Xylosma parvifolium. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Establish a climate monitoring station at higher altitudes. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate options for securing species identified as most at risk from climate change. Investigate propagation and ex-situ storage techniques for species restricted to cloud forests, including both seed banking and living collections. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Prepare nominations for species, populations, ecological communities or critical habitat as required. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Assess the appropriateness of nominating vegetation communities identified as being of conservation concern. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Assess the appropriateness of nominating identified invertebrates as threatened. This includes seven endemic ant species, 38 endemic beetles, and nine endemic spiders. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Habitat of Knicker Nut, Calystegia affinis, Chamaesyce psammogeton and Polystichum moorei in settlement area must be protected from clearing and fenced where possible to protect from trampling or grazing. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Grass invasion, specifically Kikuyu, is impacting the viability of the Calystegia affinis population at Old Settlement. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Control the introduced Buffalo and Kikuyu grasses threatening the Caesalpinia bonduc population at Neds Beach. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Cherry Guava, Crofton Weed and Tiger Lily to be controlled in Carmichaelia exsul sites. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Weed control in Chamaesyce psammogeton sites will need to be opportunistically undertaken to new weed species incursion. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Coprosma inopinata habitat should be monitored for any weed incursions, and any weeds treated as a priority. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Control Crofton weed and Tiger Lily in Polystichum moorei habitat in the southern mountains where sites are accessible. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Undertake monitoring of threatened flora populations. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Establish ex-situ populations of threatened flora. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Control introduced invertebrates that are impacting upon threatened flora in settlement area. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Adverse impacts from tourism at the Calystegia affinis site to be minimised, and the boardwalk in the area to be maintained. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Impacts of visitation at Caesalpinia bonduc sites needs to be monitored and any adverse impacts need to be minimised, by either signage or fencing. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Access to the southern population of Coprosma inopinata should be restricted to essential research and management only and access permitted only with information on how to minimise adverse impacts on site. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Conduct priority fauna species research. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Conduct research on the ecology of the LHI Currawong. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Design and implement monitoring programs to evaluate effectiveness of recovery actions on listed threatened fauna. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Zone all mapped Flesh-footed Shearwater nesting habitat as Environmental Protection or significant vegetation. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Rehabilitate areas within grazing leases where Flesh-footed Shearwaters are continuing to nest as well as additional areas where possible that are within the 1978 mapped distribution. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Protect and enhance habitat for the Lord Howe Island Silvereye. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Enhance and protect habitat for the LHI Wood-eating Cockroach. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Protect and enhance Lord Howe Island Earthworm habitat through minimising access to stream edges by visitors to Mount Gower. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Protect habitat of the White-bellied Storm-petrel and Kermadec Petrel breeding populations on Balls Pyramid through restricting access. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Protect and enhance Red-tailed Tropicbird habitat. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Protect and enhance Little Shearwater habitat. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Maintain existing rodent baiting program and review with regard to expanding the program to seasonally cover seasonal breeding areas for affected sea birds. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Ensure strict quarantine protocols are implemented for access to all offshore islands to prevent rodents from establishing on these islands. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Promote the re-establishment of White-bellied Storm-petrel and Kermadec Petrel breeding populations on the main Island through rodent eradication or control on Mount Gower. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Assess the impact of the introduced Masked Owl predation on threatened fauna. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Reduce the amount of plastic bags in use on LHIG and encourage their responsible disposal. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Provide support to efforts to reduce bycatch of sea birds by long-line fishing operations. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Implement the Lord Howe Island Phasmid Interim Recovery Actions. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Implement the Lord Howe Placostylus recovery actions. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Protect habitat of the Lord Howe Island Gecko and Lord Howe Island Skink. Developments that would remove habitat for these two species would require assessment under the EP&A Act 1979 and the Commonwealth EPBC Act 1999. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Determine the distribution and status of the Lord Howe Island Gecko and Lord Howe Island Skink where the two species are likely but not known to occur (Admiralty Group, Gower Island and Muttonbird Island). |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Design and enforce quarantine protocols for residents and visitors travelling to offshore islands to minimise the risk that rodents, the introduced skink and frog, diseases and pathogens are not introduced to offshore islands. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
The biology and ecology of at least one population for the LHI Gecko and LHI skink should be studied. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate the impact of the Grass Skink and the Bleating Tree Frog on the main island on the Lord Howe Island Skink and Lord Howe Island Gecko. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Implement the Lord Howe Island Woodhen Recovery Plan. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Implement the high priority components of the LHIB Quarantine Strategy on the Lord Howe Island Group and mainland departure points (managing threats and habitats). |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Implement the remaining components of the LHIB Quarantine Strategy (managing threats and habitats). |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Implement the LHIB Plant Importation Policy (managing threats and habitat). |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Increase production of local native plants for use in the settlement area. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Develop a rapid response and detection protocol for new introductions of weeds and exotic fauna (managing threats and habitat). |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Regularly update mapping to reflect outcomes from implementation programs and review effectiveness of implementation programs on annual basis. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Complete Lord Howe Island Multi species management plan by 2006. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Develop and implement measures to minimise the impacts of introduced flora and fauna pathogens (managing threats and habitat). |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Develop and implement a set of phytosanitary guidelines for walkers to minimise the risk of introducing pests, weeds and disease to the LHIG. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Develop and implement a strategy to control the spread of Phytophthora cinnamomi in the settlement area (managing threats and habitat). |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Conduct a detailed survey for the presence of Phytophthora cinnamomi. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Test LHIG native species potential to be susceptible to Phytophthora cinnamomi. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Implement the high priority tasks in the LHIB Strategic Plan for Weed Management. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Implement other tasks of the LHI Strategic Plan for Weed Management. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Continue weed mapping programs to include problem species that have not been mapped, e.g. distribution of exotic grasses on offshore islands. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Continue inventory and monitoring of weed distribution and spread. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Develop a weed monitoring program. This program would identify key points to be monitored and include feedback loops. Monitoring outcomes should be mapped to provide data for future analyses. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate and implement funding incentive schemes for weed management on leases in settlement area. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Identify and implement safe techniques and training in remote and dangerous terrain. Target weed species include Bitou Bush, Crofton Weed and Tiger Lily. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Monitor weed spread and distribution. Weed spread and distribution to be monitored on a regular basis to provide information on weed status in remote areas. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Establish a rapid response protocol to control any outbreaks of significant weeds such as Cherry Guava in the southern mountains. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Prepare promotional material and activity program to increase weed awareness for both islanders and visitors. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Run tours visiting weed management sites. Any profits made should be used for further weed management. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Continue regular weed inspections of leases in settlement area. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Ensure careful use of herbicide in invertebrate hotspot areas and threatened flora and fauna habitat. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Use a gradual approach to weed control in invertebrate hotspot areas so that invertebrates have an opportunity to move or recover in untreated or previously treated areas. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Ensure staff and volunteers are adequately trained in herbicide use and are using the most effective and target-specific chemical and application methods. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Support research into the control and biology of major weed species of Lord Howe Island, including research into weed control techniques. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate current research into the biological control of weed species, particularly Crofton Weed and Tiger Lily, which are problems in inaccessible areas. Initiate and support any funding proposals for research in this area. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
LHIB staff to work with leaseholders to undertake weed control, in conjunction with revegetation in degraded Sallywood Swamp Forest sites 1, 2, 4 and 5 as identified in plan. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Conduct bush regeneration sweeps, and control key weed species at Transit Hill. Key weeds to target include Cherry Guava, Cotoneaster, Pittosporum, Ground Asparagus and Climbing Asparagus. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Monitor for incursions by new weed species on Transit Hill. Any new outbreaks to be treated as a priority. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Control Bitou Bush on the cliff lines of the northern hills of Malabar due to its predicted impact on sea birds. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Control Bridal Creeper on Malabar, particularly Malabar Ridge. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Conduct a Kikuyu control program on Dawson's Point, undertaken in conjunction with replacement by the native grass species Poa poiformis. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Conduct a broad weed control program on Malabar, focus on Ground Asparagus and Climbing Asparagus, and also monitor and control any escaping weeds e.g. Privet ligustrum sinense, Cotoneaster, Grevillea robusta. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Control exotic grasses on coastal dunes at Blinky Beach and Lagoon Foreshores particularly in the habitat of the endangered plant Chamaesyce psammogeton. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Control exotic species e.g. Ipomea cairica and Euphorbia paralias where necessary, particularly in the habitat of the endangered plant Chamaesyce psammogeton. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Monitor for any new weed species on coastal dunes and remove as appropriate. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Exotic grass invasion to be controlled on offshore islands. Target weed species include Kikuyu and Rhodes Grass. Exotic species to be replaced with appropriate native species. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Monitor for any new weed species on offshore islands, particularly of exotic grasses. Any new weed species to be treated as a priority. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Control weeds in remnant vegetation, and particularly significant vegetation communities in settlement area including Mangrove, Lowland Mixed Forest, Poa poiformis and Greybark-Blackbutt on calcarenite/coral sand. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Control weeds in significant watercourses.
Significant watercourses include those at Old Settlement, Cobby's Creek, the Soldiers Creek basin of the southern settlement area. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Control weeds in selected priority sites in settlement area including from Neds Beach to Middle Beach and Blinky Beach,. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Control exotic grasses at Lagoon foreshores, Lovers Bay, Old Settlement and Ned's Beach. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Continue the current procedure by the LHIB to remove Norfolk Island Pines that are less than 6m. Encourage the removal of larger Norfolk Island Pines outside of areas that have been identified as culturally significant for the Norfolk Island Pine. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Bush regeneration sweeps to be undertaken in the southern mountains chiefly to control Cherry Guava, Cotoneaster, Ochna and Ground Asparagus and to monitor and treat incursions of any new weed species. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Control exotic grasses and replace with native grass at Muttonbird Point. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Control Crofton Weed and Tiger Lily in the habitat of the endangered plant Carmichaelia exsul at Eddies Cave, Mt Gower. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Control of Crofton Weed on southern mountains, where accessible, and in priority communities including Waterfall Cliff, Upland Freshwater Stream, Dracophyllum-Metrosideros and Mixed Fern and Herb communities. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Control of other key weed species (Tiger Lily, Cherry Guava, Cotoneaster, Ochna, Ground Asparagus and Bitou Bush) in southern mountains where accessible. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
At Little Island undertake control of Tiger Lily, Castor Oil, Crofton Weed, Cherry Guava and Paspalum. Encourage regeneration of native species. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Implement the high priority actions from the Lord Howe Island Vegetation Rehabilitation Plan. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Undertake remaining components from the Lord Howe Island Vegetation Rehabilitation Plan. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Revegetate selected degraded high conservation priority sites in Settlement area. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Encourage revegetation of selected Sallywood Swamp Forest Sites. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Encourage revegetation of Mangrove communities. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Encourage revegetation of selected watercourse areas. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Encourage revegetation of cleared areas where appropriate. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Use best-practice regeneration principles. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Establish a monitoring program for revegetation projects. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Establish monitoring programs measure the success of programs. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Establish a set of marked photo points in a range of sites to assist with the monitoring of revegetation projects. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Undertake quadrat or transect sampling to measure changes to vegetation including species composition, height and canopy cover. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Control the impacts of trampling, browsing and grazing by domestic stock by fencing selected Sallywood Swamp Forest, Mangrove and watercourse communities in settlement area. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Encourage fencing of other patches of remnant vegetation from domestic stock. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Implement erosion control measures in fenced areas wherever necessary. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Plant a buffer of hardy species on the edges of significant remnant vegetation patches, particularly those suffering from dieback. Natural regeneration of native species should also be encouraged on the edges of remnant vegetation patches. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Control introduced rodents. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Continue introduced rodent current baiting program. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Review existing baiting program to include additional baiting sites for biodiversity based outcomes. Consider inclusion of additional areas identified above. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Design and implement a monitoring program to evaluate the effectiveness of the program on reducing the threat of rodent predation on target species and locations. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Eradicate introduced rodents. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Continue studies where necessary to investigate rodent eradication. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Prepare a Species Impact Statement (under the TSC Act) for the proposal to eradicate introduced rodents. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Continue to evaluate opportunities to use rodent specific toxins. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Conduct research into the impacts of introduced vertebrate fauna on the biodiversity of the LHIG and investigate techniques for control or eradication. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate degree of threat through competition and predation posed by: the Australian Kestrel, Backbird, Bleating Tree-frog, Buff-Banded Rail, Feral Pigeon, Grass Skink, Mask Owl and Song thrush. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate techniques and feasibility of control or eradication for each species, based on the level of threat each species poses to native species of the LHIG. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Implement control or eradication techniques where available, feasible and effective. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Conduct research into the impacts of introduced invertebrate fauna on the biodiversity of the LHIG and, investigate techniques for control or eradication. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate the threat posed by introduced invertebrates through targeted monitoring sites and research. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate techniques and feasibility for control or eradication based on the level of threat each species poses to the native species of the LHIG. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Implement control or eradication techniques where available, feasible and effective. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate control methods for the Arsipoda beetle on Calystegia affinis site on Max Nicholls track. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
If control methods for the Arsipoda beetle are found that are effective and that do not pose a risk to Calystegia affinis, undertake a control program. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Monitor water quality in identified creek lines. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Monitor waste pollution including from the waste generation plant, runoff or aerial dispersal of chemicals/fertilisers used on Golf Course and other grassed areas. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Conduct checks to ensure that septic systems are functioning appropriately. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Investigate options for relocating septic systems away from creek lines. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Investigate options for alternative sewerage management e.g. composting toilets or clean technologies for onsite water treatment. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
High
|
Enhance positive interaction and reduce negative interactions between humans and the LHI Woodhen. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Promote awareness to residents of Lord Howe Island of the threat to native species posed by Feral Pigeons. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Control or eradicate the Feral Pigeon population. |
Sula dactylatra |
Masked Booby |
Multiple
|
Medium
|